Nicholas Folland

Nicholas (Nic) Folland is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Contemporary Studies and Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, a Samstag scholar (awarded 1999), and subject of the 2014 SALA Festival monograph, Nicholas Folland.

Biography
Folland was born in Adelaide in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. He received a Masters of Visual Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2009. In 1999, he was awarded the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to join the research program work at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Public Art Observatory in Barcelona.

Artistic style and subject
Folland uses found objects such as knives, trophies, furniture, crystalware and taxidermied animals to create sculpture and mixed media artworks. An example of his work in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Australia), The door was open… (2006), features a chandelier with a refrigerator coil that creates a sphere of ice in the centre of the chandelier.

Collections
Folland's work is held in the following collections:
 * Museum of Contemporary Art
 * National Gallery of Victoria